Tony Bish Skeetfield Chardonnay 2022 MAGNUM
Product.Nr. 2195
Skeetfield is a brilliant wine with exceptional power and grace. Still very youthful, fruit and oak all in balance - long and lingering.
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Tony Bish Skeetfield Chardonnay 2022 MAGNUM
Bob Campbell, MW (The Real Review): 96/100. Impressive chardonnay with concentration, elegance, purity and subtle power. Flavours include savoury/bran biscuit, poyster shell, grapefruit, spicy French oak, ginger and pepper. Nicely balanced chardonnay with an impressively lingering finish. Drink: 2023 - 2028.
Michael Cooper: 5 stars. Hand-picked from mature vines at Ohiti, this classy, vigorous wine was fermented and aged for a year in French oak barriques. Fragrant, mouthfilling and savoury, it has concentrated, yet delicate, peachy, citrusy, biscuity flavours, oak-derived complexity, fresh acidity and a lengthy finish. Best drinking mid-2025+
Tasting Note:
A medley aroma of sweet citrus blossom, nectarine, vanilla, mandarin peel, spices and almonds. The palate is very intense, layered and complex with ripe nectarine, citrus rind and nutty mealy depth. There is great depth of flavour and an incredibly long and lingering finish.
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Additional information
Type: White wine
Varietal: Chardonnay
Food match: smoked fish with egg and stone fruit
Vineyard: Skeetfield, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The Skeetfield Vineyard has old vine dry farmed Mendoza Chardonnay vines. Skeetfield is named after a historic clay bird shooting (Skeet Shooting) site in Hawkes Bay owned by the Gunn family. Here generations of Gunn's practiced skeet shooting. Then the area was cleared and planted in grapes.Winemaking: The fruit was hand-picked and whole bunch pressed with minimal settling. This wine was 100% barrel fermented and matured, with 60% new Taransaud French oak. Indigenous ferment and malo-lactic ferment have provided complexity and depth. Battonage on lees has yielded a superb textural quality. Minimal handling to bottling has preserved the purity and intensity of the wine. Skeetfield is a wine with exceptional power and grace, and will greatly reward the patient.
Alcohol: 13.5% vol
Wine style: dry
Total acidity: 5.8 g/l
Bottle size: 0.75l
Notice: Contains sulphites.
Cellaring potential: 2030+
Closure: Screwcap
Produced and bottled by: Bish Wines Ltd., 3 Ossian Street, Ahuiri, 4110 Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Imported and distributed by: vinabonus GmbH, Simmedenweg 40, 34134 Kassel, Germany
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